In advance of tonight’s Winter 2013 Preview (which I may or may not have started writing yet), Dark_Sage takes a look back on his Summer 2012 Preview to see just how accurate he was…

The Predictions (+results)!

Excellent

La Storia della Arcana Famiglia – I may be willing to accept I was slightly wrong on this one.Kokoro Connect – Right!

Good

Sword Art Online – Right!-ish. Those first some eps were good.Dakara Boku Wa – I dunno, didn’t watch it.Campione! – Uhh… no, not really. But there were tits, so yeah, I was right.Koi to Senkyo – I dunno, didn’t finish it. We’ll assume so?Tari Tari – I liked the three episodes I saw!

Kyoukai Senjou no Horizon II – Was indeed a sequel.Rinne no Lagrange Season 2 – Sequel, confirmed.Dog Days’ – Yeah, this was a sequel.Yuruyuri Season 2 – Not entirely sure, but I think this was a sequel.Moyashimon Returns – More a reboot than a sequel, but we’re gonna call it a sequel.Hakuoki: Reimei-roku – Did this even air? I dunno, didn’t pay attention, but if it did, it was a sequel.

Out of a total of 24 shows that I previewed, I was right on all but two of them. This gives my previews a 92% accuracy rate. Rest assured that my random guesses divine divinations will not lead you astray for Winter 2013!

The problem with Moyashimon was a combination of the source material dipping a bit in later volumes and the studios (same companies did the first season) burning down… or at least that’s the only charitable explanation I can come with for why the character designs went into the toilet, and why they just stuffed in droning explanations at random.

It’s a serious effort, but half the show is full of jokes that don’t translate very well (or at all), so in the end there was only so much we could do without filling the screen full of TL notes. That’s also why you’re about as likely to see official subs for it as you are for Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei.